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单词 going on towards
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going on towards
7. intransitive. going on for: approaching (a certain age, time, or period of time); almost, nearly. Cf. going on —— at Phrasal verbs 2, to be getting on for (to, towards) at get v. Phrasal verbs 1. Also in going on towards.
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1792 T. Beddoes Hist. Isaac Jenkins 37 Although it be now going on for ten years, since it happened, I still distinctly remember my attendance on the wife and children of Isaac Jenkins.
1848 J. H. Newman Loss & Gain 195 I was very uncomfortable about the Articles, going on for two years since.
1887 M. E. Martin Amor Vincit II. xiii. 265 I shall be twenty-three, going on for twenty-four.
1891 M. M. Dowie Girl in Karpathians xiii. 174 It was going on for eight o'clock.
1904 M. J. Homes Rena's Exper. xiii. 196 Miss Burdick, Miss Burdick, where be you? It's going on for one o'clock.
1912 B. Thomas Picture Tales from Welsh Hills (1913) i. 32 I came over, to find father still living, though going on for ninety years old.
1936 H. Miller Black Spring 139 It's going on towards evening.
2011 M. Jennings Season of Darkness (2012) xxii. 137 It must have been going on for seven o'clock.
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